Nine-Year-Old Boy With Just A Month To Live Celebrates Christmas A Month Early

The parents of a nine-year-old boy with neuroblastoma have celebrated Christmas together, as he has been given just a month to live.

Neuroblastoma commonly affects young children, with Jacob Thompson confined to a children's hospital in Maine, USA, since he was diagnosed with a tumour in October.

Jacob and his family have been tragically forced to celebrate an early Christmas. However, the family are not alone in their struggle with the terminal illness.

His parents, Michelle and Roger, appealed for strangers to send in cards to their son ahead of their Christmas Day and received over 60,000 responses.

The little boy has been photographed working his way through piles of cards and presents.

The Facebook page Jacob Thompson's Journey, which posts updates of his fight against the illness, explained in a recent post: "Words can't express our immense gratitude for the joy that so many people from all over the world have brought Jacob.

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible.
He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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